The animation style is similar to Japanese Anime, and the characters move like the puppets from the Thunderbirds television show. [1]

The movie opened in 3rd place, meaning more people went to see The Dark Knight than the brand-new Star Wars movie. Reviews were mixed and mostly negative, earning the film a 17% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. [2] Many critics have compared it to an over-long Saturday morning cartoon.

The TV Show

The TV series is being produced in High Definition and airs on the cable channel Cartoon Network.[3] There will be at least forty 22-minute episodes.

The first episode, "Ambush," aired Friday, October 3, 2008.

SciFiWeekly has reviewed the series premier and given it a "B" rating. [4]

Novelizations

The ever-popular Karen Traviss' novelization of the movie was published in June, 2008. [5]Stargate novelist Karen Miller based the second book, Wild Space, on the TV series and will be published in November, 2008. [6]

Three more Clone Wars novels will be published, with one more by Traviss and two more by Miller.
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